Is it possible to be "cool" and support Mitt Romney?

[opebo]

So in my case, if you're a member of a fraternity or sorority, chances are Romney is the "cool" option.

No offense, but isn't a fraternity the antithesis of 'cool'?  And a sorority is even worse.

[opebo]

It's hard to like someone who's super serious about supporting BO because typically they have no logical basis to do so.     

Unless they're not rich.

[opebo]

It's hard to like someone who's super serious about supporting BO because typically they have no logical basis to do so.

Unless they're not rich.

 
I'm not sure what your point is.  "Only rich people are Republicans?"  
Dems are the party of the super rich and powerful and they try to "buy" the cheapest/easiest votes they can in order to keep/use power to preserve/improve their power structure.  
That being the case, I can't make out your point.    

The point is obvious - it is rational for the non-rich to vote Democratic (or socialist if only they had that option).  It is only logical for the rich to vote Republican.

[opebo]

there is something that rings very hollow about it.

yeah.. you know how there are often villains in Nazi movies that you can't help but find somewhat appealing - like the guy in the Jews-killing-Nazis movie that came out a year or two ago.  But to support this kind of milquetoast version, its just Babbitism.

[opebo]

In Canada, you are assumed to love Barack Obama, and if you don't, you're nuts.

That's the entire rest of the world, not just Canada.  And it wouldn't necessarily be Barack Obama, but rather any Democratic presidential nominee.

The US is certainly a strange and unique place.

exceptional. 

Worse.

Only if you define the middle class as "the rich".  The entrenched super rich class owns the democrats.   They try to build a winning coalition as cheap and 'radical' as they can because you can mold 'untethered people' more easily to do/support what you want.  It's like giving candy to children.  Here's a free phone, here's free birth control, here's a racial quota, let's "go after" the 'rich' and make things 'fair', here's a government contract, here's a grant, here's a regulation to make you feel better...  It's literally throwing candy around treating everyone like children, but don't pay attention to what I'm doing over here, and never mind how we messed that up, THEY WANT TO TAKE THE CANDY AWAY!!!         

No, the rich prefer the Republicans, Amna.  The 'middle class' is just a few petite bourgeois, doctors, lawyers, and that sort of thing.  The vast, vast majority of Americans are poor or 'working class' persons.

[opebo]

I can't really answer this question well, because where I live, and the people I'm with at college, virtually everyone supports Romney. I guess Romney would be the "cool" option in that "everyone is doing it".

haha, when I saw your chinese I thought you were Konkee.  But where are you?  You can't be at Bloomington if everyone's right-wing, correct?  I thought Bloomington was an island of reason in a sea of bigotry like Austin or Columbia Mo.

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Quite the opposite, Opebo, at least speaking for Austin.

No buddy, just checked: Travis County went about 63% for reason, while Texas as a whole was about 55% sea-of-bigotry.

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Travis county has more white people than anybody else. TX as a whole does not. Since by Opebo's maxim "Only white people can be racist", ergo, Travis County is more racist than TX as a whole.

Dude, didn't you see Slacker?

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Are you arguing that a TX city that is majority white is somehow not racist? I though that was impossible.

Go away simpleton, I was talking to Konkee.